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Solution: Can Place Flowers

Explore how to apply a greedy algorithm to solve the problem of planting flowers in a flowerbed without violating adjacency rules. Understand the step-by-step logic for checking empty plots and efficiently placing flowers to meet the given quota, while maintaining optimal time and space complexity.

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Statement

Given an integer list flowerbed, each element is either 00 (indicating an empty plot) or 11 (indicating a planted plot), and an integer n. Determine if n new flowers can be planted without violating the rule that no two flowers can be planted in adjacent plots. Return TRUE if it’s possible to plant all n flowers. Otherwise, return FALSE.

Constraints:

  • 1≤1\leq flowerbed.length ≤103\leq10^3 ...